Thursday, 6 November 2014

The Adenium Saga

Wanna hear a story? Wokay.... Once Upon A Time.....Mamarazzi tried planting Adenium. Seems easy to plant ma. The plant just need well drained soil and loads of sunlight...

So Mamarazzi took care of the plant and it flowered. Mamarazzi asked her friend how to get more plant out of this one plant. He advised to try hand pollinate the plant though success rate is low. She did just that.

Surprisingly....after some time...two little "horns" appeared. Friend told her that it takes 2 to 3 months for the seedpods to mature.

It was not an easy "pregnancy". As the "fetus" grow" the leaves started to yellow.

More and more leaves dropped an subsequently that branch became "botak". Still the seedpods was hanging on for their life.

Friend advised her to wrap the seedpods as when they are "ripe" the pods would burst. She did just that. Waiting patiently for them to mature.

After nearly two months....yesterday morning Mamarazzi discovered the seedpods missing from the plant. Search....saw the pods were broken off and was on the car porch. The funny thing was...where the heck is the wrapper? The wrapper gone. Who or what had done it?

One of the pods seems to have been "penyet" a bit at one end.

She opened it up...full of seeds.....not fully matured....Hmm....not sure it can be use or not as the seeds that friend gave her was hard while these are still soft.

Mamarazzi said she will wait for the other seed pod to dry up...hopefully there will be some seeds that survive. A sad day indeed...

fuyoh, this plant really not easy to plant and maintain huh?? but when Uncle SK's mum was still around, we have many pots at home and all blooming very beautiful flowers leh.. so Uncle SK thought it's easy only, until he read this post by Mamarazzi.. kekeke!! :p

very suspicious how come the pods suddenly missing and dropped and found it penyet on the porch without the wrapping!!! seems like kena sabotaged by somebody leh, who is the naughty person who did that??!!

Could it be due to too much water (raining a lot nowadays) that the plant died? My Adenium grew horns two or three times and managed to produce seeds. I tried planting the seeds and it was successful. Try again.

I call this the dessert rose. My friend gave me a pot when we moved into our current house 10 years ago. It survived for many years, gave us beautiful mixed color blooms but never had the pods... I think one day it just dried up? I can't recall where the heck is it now, nor can I remember the "death"... lagi sad.

Your seeds can plant one... more patience! If not, just pop by the nursery and buy one more pot... haha!

Aiya suspens and wasted only. I doubt the seeds are mature enough. Even after pods turn brown, they will take more days to dry up, then to split, then for seeds inside to dry and fly off. Nvm plant, can try again.

I didn't know gotta hand-pollinate... some of my adeniums seem quite productive haha. The seeds have high germination rate but after that growth rate is soooo lembu.

For adenium and frangipani, I have picked up those cut branches people threw out after pruning their plants and stick them into the ground. Now they are growing well. You can try it too, after pruning your adenium, try planting from the cut branches. Can google on how to do it.

Aha BUT if you do that, the plant will flower but won't develop the fat 'base' that is prized. The part that takes years to achieve. That's what the seller told me anyway. Mun, yours got nice fat base?

I tried that once too...and it flowered (but not many lar)....and then it died :(The 'mama' plant (from where I cut off a part to replant) also died (from neglect)...and then my kucing knocked it down and broke the large vase...and everything ended up in the dumpster!

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